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Newspaper
Glenwood Opinion
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1910
Page
3
Old Philadelphia schools plan to restore rule based arithmetic teaching as a bridge to practical mental drill. Supt Brumbaugh argues rules aid memory and law like fundamentals, while critics call it old fashioned. The piece urges emphasis on spelling reading penmanship composition and arithmetic as core skills for most children.
Memorial Day piece recalls Andrew Yates of Emerson meeting B F Trisler in Glenwood. They recount a Davis county school in the 1850s where 17 toughs disrupted classes near Bloomfield. Ed Grant taught briefly, then faced threats and a brutal rounding up of the rebels, with a fleet of punishment meted out as 12 or more were thrashed.
The Automobile Club of St Joseph plans a June 18 to 21 road run to Omaha and back to promote good roads and sociable time. The pathfinder car The Dorris will be driven by Guy Hall with Walter Bartlett as club representative. Participants include Shaw and Abramson of local papers. they stopped in Glenwood on Saturday.
A brief classified notice seeks a six or seven room house for rent. Respondents are directed to inquire at the Opinion office for details.
Miss Edith Gilmore left Thursday for Boston and will join Miss Gertrude Bogart in Chicago before traveling together to the Hub. In Boston Edith will visit sister Miss Ethel Gilmore while Gertrude attends graduation events for sister Miss Nell Bogart at Smith College. The four girls then plan a lark through New England parts of Canada and Niagara Falls, returning near July 1.
Mrs Mary Cheyney, who died Monday at her home northwest of Strahan, was mourned by her husband J H Dolph and Mrs Melvin Cheyney A H Dolph and others who attended the funeral today. She left eight children, a sister, and three brothers, and was a former county resident well known to older settlers. Wallpaper discount notice follows.
A 1910 reminiscence recounts Grant and Trisler meeting in Glenwood after years apart, detailing Yates and Trisler’s Civil War service in Iowa units, and notes the 1861 enlistments and later reunion. It also lists funds for Iowa hunting and game restoration, with details on partridges, pheasants, and management, plus a local ad for Chamberlain’s Liniment.
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